I have taken a lot of thought, and a lot of careful consideration over the tragic and atrocious act at a High School in Connecticut. I have spoken privately, but I think there is a deserving place that we must take a stand.

I’m super annoyed by this insistence that a lack of God somehow had an effect on this Connecticut shooting.

Let’s entertain the idea that such a god that theist believe in exists. If so, then we can conclude one of the following from the events in Connecticut:

1) That such a god is all powerful and allows atrocities to be committed.
2) That such a god is powerless.

If 1 is true, then we can conclude the following:

That such a God is cruel and permits atrocity to be committed, as he is able to stop such an act. Theist consider this either an act of divine punishment, or a divine lesson is to be derived from such events. These same theists are also the ones who say that morality is inherited directly from theism, and that the morality the espouse is directly ordained by divine command. If this is true, then what such a God can be followed who does not follow, or is above the same morality that theists claim he established.

Either this god is unfit to be worshipped, or, more simply by Occam’s Razor, the entity must not exist.

If 2 is true, then we can conclude that such a god who is powerless probably has his other miracles called into a dubious position, such as creation.

This insistence that such a god does exists, and the fact that we have “kicked him out” of school and government, and that these atrocities are a result is damaging and not logical. This insistence that somehow their morality is righteous, yet they contradict themselves that they follow a divine morality from an entity that permits such atrocious acts to be committed.

Perhaps there is a god, and he is all powerful, but then we can conclude he is uncaring. This then calls into question the “personal” relationship he has with the proverbial “me.” That he is so concerned with the “I.” and will save “me” from my sin, and has guided “me” in each step. It is the epitome or neurotic narcissism. If such a god does indeed exist, then morality suggests that we are probably better off without him.

On the issue of guns in general, I’m not certain how American Exceptionalism has turned into this idea that America literally IS the exception to the rule. Every first world country with strong gun laws have lower mortality rates due to violent crimes. Every single one. Why we believe that we will somehow be the exception to this rule is nonsense.

Further, SCOTUS only recently ruled in the 1970s that the second amendment guarantees the right of individuals to own guns. Further, Antonin Scalia, by no means even a moderate, argued that this right only guarantees one to own a handgun, and that authorities can ban all other weapons. Before the 1970s, for 200 years, our founding father’s supreme court and congress all stated that guns was a state’s right to establish a militia, understanding that it was necessary to the security of the state; and that said militia was to be “well regulated.”

 
This post probably offends several of you.